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How the NSA Betrayed the World’s Trust. Time to Act

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“It turns out that George Orwell was an optimist,” warns computer security expert Mikko Hypponen. He describes the US government’s “wholesale blanket surveillance” of online and phone data and how it upends the freedoms guaranteed by the US Constitution, endangers democracy and inhibits free speech. Hypponen’s advice: Advocate for open-source systems and protest unchecked surveillance. getAbstract suggests you watch this timely presentation.

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How Western intelligence agencies, particularly those in the United States, have abused their right to monitor telecommunications and Internet traffic;